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4. Unless you say the truth, I’ll hate you.
5. You must go far away from here, otherwise he’ll find you.
6. I wear a raincoat whether it is raining or snowing.
7. You must go if you love me.
6. Purpose
The purpose’s conjunctions are so that, in order that, and in order to. Examples:
1. He comes early so that he isn’t late.
2. They practiced hard in order that they could win the game.
3. I am here in order to meet you.
7. Place
The place’s conjunctions are where and wherever. Examples:
1. You may go wherever you like.
2. I searched where I was asked to.
8. Time
The time’s conjunctions are after, before, when, while, since, until, as, and as soon as.
Examples: 1.
We went after you left.
2. While it was snowing, we played cards.
3. The boy was sleeping when his parents got home.
4. Before you told me, I had known it.
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5. Wait here until I return.
6. She called on her neighbor as the clock struck six.
7. I will go as soon as he comes.
8. I have been here since the sun rose.
9. She has been lived here since 1990.
10. He goes to school after he works.
9. Result
The result’s conjunctions are that, consequently, therefore, thus, as a result, and hence.
Examples: 1.
He ran fast that he made himself tired.
2. You have disregarded my advice, therefore I will not help you again.
3. The road was wet and slippery, consequently there were many accidents.
4. There was little traffic, thus it took us only ten minuets to get there.
5. As a result, the surface temperature of the globe is around 85 degrees warmer
than it would be if there were no atmospheres.
10. Manner
The manner’s conjunctions are as if and as though. Examples:
1. She looks as if she had seen a ghost.
2. I felt as though I had been hit by a car.
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2.2.3 Previous Study
Conjunctions have been discussed by student of English Study Program
D3 of Faculty of Cultural Science, University of North Sumatera. They are Nila Trisnawati 2011 and Sefriana 2009.
Trisnawati 2011 in her paper entitled The Analysis of Conjunctions Used in the Articles of Time Magazine uses library research and gets information
from internet to support the description of conjunctions. In this case, she takes some articles from Time Magazine as the source of the data and the data are some
sentences containing conjunctions. There are six articles of Time Magazine that are published on 2
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August 2010 and 27
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September 2010.There are certain process of analysis in the completion of this paper such as reading, identifying,
classifying, and analyzing articles of Time Magazine. The finding of research is conjunction “and” 31 the dominant conjunction used, “that” 21,3, “but”
11,6, “than” and “as” 2,8 and the least types are “both…and”, “yet”, “although”, “because”, “because of”, “even though”, “even if”, “as if”, “as soon
as”, “as a result”, “thus”, and “hence” 0,3. Sefriana 2009 in her paper entitled A Brief Description of Conjunctions
in Articles of The Jakarta Post Newspaper uses library research method. In this case, she takes some business articles from the Jakarta Post Newspaper as the
source of the data and the data are some sentences containing conjunctions. There are ten business articles which are chosen randomly. She identifies and then
categorizes conjunctions based on types in order to determine the dominant type of conjunction used in those articles. She just focused on the usage of and, or, but,
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because, before, and after conjunctions in ten business articles of The Jakarta Post Newspaper that are published on 9
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June 2008, 29
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January 2009, 30
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January 2009, 11
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February 2009 and 21
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February 2009. The finding of research is conjunction “and” 68,2 the most dominant conjunction used, “but”12,
“or” 6,6, “because” and “after” 5,5 and the least dominant conjunction used is “before” 2,2.
The writer chooses the conjunctions as her object of the paper because she is inspired from Trisnawati’s paper entitled The Analysis of Conjunctions
Used in the Articles of Time Magazine and Sefriana’s paper entitled A Brief Description of Conjunctions in Articles of The Jakarta Post Newspaper. Whereas
she analyzed the conjunctions found in the article of Reader’s Digest Magazine as the data source. As well as Nila and Sefriana, the writer has some purposes of
writing this paper that is to show the types and the most dominant type of conjunctions used in the data source.
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3. METHODOLOGY
